Foxy Digitalis
Across long stretches of KMRU’s brilliant Logue, electronic sounds become tangible landscapes bathed in prismatic light. Synesthesia flickers through vivid colors teeming with organic aural ecosystems as KMRU explores unexpected sonic combinations spread across nine memorable tracks. For one of the planet’s most compelling ambient musicians, Logue pushes into fresh directions as he explores new […]
Atsuko Hatano’s work has been a regular companion throughout the past year. The Japanese composer and violist Often released as albums of two long pieces that are often exploratory, digging into experimental drones and textures. Hatano continually amazes me with the depth of her work and the clarity of her expression. On Cells#5, though, she levels […]
Over the last 15-20 years, both Ilyas Ahmed and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma have been fixtures in my listening habits. Each has an unimpeachable body of work, and while they swim in adjacent musical oceans, they’ve always been off in their own currents. Coming together for You Can See Your Own Way Out (and the excellent Torch Songs EP before this), […]
These six short vignettes are earworms. Bass lines last for days and bloom like flowers opening their petals toward the morning sun. Vocoder-laced vocals that are simultaneously timeless and from another time. Byron Crenshaw packs unimaginable weight and emotion into minute-long songs. “I might spend eternity here; haven’t touched my friends in a year,” his […]
This banner year for new and infectious solo guitar music continues with this stellar EP from Shane Parish. Three short tracks packed with ideas and powerful connections. In the space of roughly 10 minutes, Parish draws on a host of influences from John Cage to Chinese Traditional music, stretching the limits of possibility with his […]
Like many, by the time Sunday evening rolls around my mind shifts into anxiety mode as I dread another work week. In those wonky patches, it’s nice to have something as soothing and ethereal as Aura Gaze’s beautiful Sky Mind. When the zither rings skyward on the lush opener, “Life Source Within,” I can feel […]
Self-proclaimed modular princess Arushi Jain jets off to outer space via third eye hypnosis on on her new single, “Zid.” Square waves rise and fall like tides governing celestial travel as repetitive synths push through a granular aural fog. From the track description, we learn: “‘Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo’ – written by Pakistani […]
Deep in the recesses of old-growth forests lives an ancient energy that permeates the Earth’s crust, radiating out in geometric patterns to inhabit the soil beneath us. At least that’s the energy flowing throughout james ginzburg’s newest concoction, crystallise, a frozen eye. ginzburg is a bit of an alchemist. He doesn’t sit in the same zone […]
Landon Caldwell is one of those artists that I keep seeing on all sorts of releases these days (like Foxy Digitalis fave Patrick Shiroishi). Considering the quality of all this work, though, I’m thankful. On Simultaneous Systems, the group finds cohesion and transcendence despite being states apart. Reminiscent of the Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi recordings […]